Tuberculosis  has re-emerged in European cities as a major public health problem.

The TB in European Cities group is a voluntary collaboration of experts from across the European Union. Membership includes national and city based public health physicians, epidemiologists, respiratory clinicians, mycobacteriologists and stakeholders from civil society groups.

The aim of this programme of work is to build collaboration between metropolitan TB experts to support the control, and eventual elimination, of TB in European cities.

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World TB Day - 24th March 2013

WHO Europe and the European Parliament plan to mark World TB Day with a special event at the European Parliament in Brussels.

The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control would be focussing on extra-pulmonary TB during this years World TB Day.

US Senate and House briefing on TB: 20th-21st March 2013

Other special events marking World TB Day:

- Photo exhibition at the European Parliament on 20th March 2013

- Symposium at LSHTM, London

- Symposium at the Royal Society of Medicine, London

- Symposium at UCL to launch Lancet Infectious Diseases TB series

- Briefing for UK Members of Parliament on TB and Mining

- They go to die film screening in the UK

The Union Europe Region 6th Conference took place at Imperial College, London 4-6th July. The Metropolitan TB group has organised a session on 5th July on TB in Cities.

World TB Day - 24th March 2012

The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, working with the Metropolitan TB group, would be supporting a series of events in Rotterdam, Milan, London and Barcelona.

The WHO theme for World TB day 2012 calls on individuals to make a difference. The Stop TB Partnership is encouraging us all to demand:

• Zero deaths from TB
• Faster treatment
• A quick, cheap, low-tech test
• An effective vaccine
• A world free of TB.

World TB Day News

- TBVI Symposium at the European Parliament

- UCL Global Health event on TB

- World TB Day blog in the UK Independent Newspaper

Other News

- Outbreak of TB in Paris

- London TB find and treat service: results of evaluation published

- Click here to see a motion graph of trends comparing London, Paris and Rotterdam.

- Effect of IMF-loans of tuberculosis